Places ciffergan Wants to Go

This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

This giant fiberglass cod celebrates Madison's self-proclaimed status as the U.S. capital of lutefisk.

Population: 1.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

An ode to South Dakota's state fish.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

The lowest point in South Dakota and the source of the Minnesota River.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.